Built in 1852 for Calvin Day, on Spring Street, on Asylum Hill in Hartord. A typical Italianate example, with a slightly visible cupola, the Calvin Day House has lost its original gray color and much of its ornamentation. Calvin Day, a successful dry goods merchant, was the father of John Calvin Day, who married Alice Hooker, the daughter of John and Isabella Beecher Hooker. John and Alice’s daughter, Katharine Seymour Day, would preserve the Harriet Beecher Stowe and Day-Chamberlain Houses in the Nook Farm neighborhood of Hartford. Since 1929, the house has served as the Gray Lodge of the Shelter for Women.
Calvin Day House (1852)